Here are some of the secrets of taxidermy. They were told me by the taxidermist in a mood of elation. He told me them in the time between the first glass of whisky and the fourth,...

It isn't every one who's been a god,' said the sunburnt man. 'But it's happened to me—among other things.'

Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia, Hapley the entomologist. If so you know at least of...

Leung Soey, white-haired at the age of 73, desperately needs the gold that a wealthy client from Singapore, Kwan Douhak, will pay him to translate at a very personal gathering....

I made the acquaintance of Pyecraft in this very smoking-room. I was a young, nervous new member, and he saw it. I was sitting all alone, wishing I knew more of the members, and...

He was a pale-faced little man, with dark eyes and a fine and very black moustache. He had a very stiff, upright collar slightly frayed, that gave him an illusory double chin, and...

A young man called Edward Eden meets a strange old gentleman who says he wants him to be his heir. This strange meeting produces even more unusual results.

This book presents three stories of speculation about how things are, might become, and might have been. Taken together they provide a glimpse into my visions of the world....

Tony saw his dead wife. She wasn’t a ghost, and he wasn’t crazy. But he saw her, and she couldn’t see him.When Tony's wife dies, he's left with a gadget...

Some business had detained me in Chancery Lane nine in the evening, and thereafter, having some inkling of a headache, I was disinclined either for entertainment or further work....